Impulse Space

In-space propulsion and payload mobility

Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer

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Full-timeRedondo Beach, CA, USA$140k - $180k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
At least 5 years of professional experience designing analog, power, or control electronics for spacecraft or similar vehicles.
Proficiency with electronics component selection, analysis, simulation, schematics, and layout.
Experience troubleshooting electronics problems at the board or system level.
Ability to work autonomously, communicate clearly, and collaborate across engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities

Design, test, build, and deliver electrical systems that power, control, and operate spacecraft, including electromechanical actuators, power conversion and distribution, batteries, solar power systems, motor controls, sensors, and embedded control electronics.
Own hardware from architecture sketches and first-principles design through bring-up, qualification, vehicle integration, and flight.
Develop circuit boards for spacecraft, with an emphasis on analog, digital, or control electronics.
Contribute to new spacecraft avionics architecture trades.
Perform rigorous analyses and simulations of avionics devices and systems.
Act as the responsible engineering authority for hardware, owning designs from board bring-up and lab debugging through qualification and flight operations.
Define hardware interfaces and verify requirements.
Establish and maintain high technical standards and mentor less experienced engineers.
Partner with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams.
Make multidisciplinary spacecraft trades affecting performance, reliability, mass, power, and mission capability.

Desired Qualifications

Desire to improve team processes and train other team members.

As a Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer, you will design, test, build, and deliver the electrical systems that power, control, and operate our spacecraft. Your work will span flight-critical hardware including electromechanical actuators, power conversion and distribution, batteries, solar power systems, motor controls, sensors, and embedded control electronics.

You will own hardware from architecture sketches and first-principles design through bring-up, qualification, vehicle integration, and flight, with broad technical scope and extreme ownership. You will work with experts across propulsion, GNC, mechanisms, software, structures, thermal, and systems engineering to solve multidisciplinary spacecraft problems and make trades that directly affect performance, reliability, mass, power, and mission capability.

This is an opportunity to work with some of the best engineers in the industry on difficult, consequential problems - and take spacecraft systems from a whiteboard to hardware operating in space.

Develop circuit boards for spacecraft, with an emphasis on analog, digital or control electronics
Contribute to new spacecraft avionics architecture trade
Perform rigorous analyses and simulations of avionics devices and systems
Act as the Responsible Engineering authority for your hardware, owning your design from board bring-up and debugging in the lab through qualification and flight operations
Define hardware interfaces and verify requirements
Establish and maintain high technical standards and mentor less experienced engineers
Partner with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing and test teams

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
5+ years professional experience designing analog, power, or control electronics for spacecraft or similar vehicles
Proficiency with electronics component selection, analysis, simulation, schematics, and layout
Experience troubleshooting electronics problems at the board level or system level
Desire to improve team processes and train other team members
Ability to work autonomously, communicate clearly, and collaborate across engineering disciplines

About the Company

Impulse Space

In-space propulsion and payload mobility

Impulse Space builds in-space mobility services and propulsion to move payloads after launch. Its products include Mira for precise maneuvering and rendezvous, Helios high-energy kick stage, Caravan rideshare to higher-energy orbits, and propulsion lines Saiph, Deneb, and Rigel. These tools act as in-space tugs and stages to push, dock, and deploy payloads in orbit. Led by SpaceX veteran Tom Mueller, Impulse Space uses flight-proven hardware and a growing network of facilities to make reaching higher-energy orbits faster and cheaper, expanding access for customers.

Company size: 501-1,000
Company stage: Series D
Total funding: $1.4B
Headquarters: Redondo Beach, CA
Founded: 2021

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